siemens. answers. ♪ lou: that was the scene of a baghdad ten years ago tonight at the start of the iraqi war. controversial war, certainly. 4,486 of our troops killed. financially it cost just under 2 trillion. that does not count the almost half billion in benefits r our war veterans. there were no commemoration ceremoni in washington or for that matter baghdad today, but we think it's important to know %-a serving the over to a halfo million men and women who serve us in uniform and not. this is, thankfully, i believe, a real shock end of today. the number of our veterans receiving compensation is on the rise. two and a half million in 2003. it to a half million in 2003. three in half million. listen to this. according to the viejo, the average wait time after filing for a disability or health care plan ten years ago was 155 days. now meet its 273 this. we are talking about our veterans, to hell wll the greatest obligation of citizenship, for those who protect our land and us, our nation.